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单词 prerogative
释义
prerogative
noun[Cusually singular]
formal
uk
/prɪˈrɒɡ.ə.tɪv/us
/prɪˈrɑː.ɡə.t̬ɪv/
something thatcertainpeopleareableorallowedto do or have, but is notpossibleorallowedfor everyone:
独有的权利（或权力），特权
Alex makes all thebigdecisions- that's his prerogative ascompanydirector.所有重大决定都是由亚历克斯作出的——这是他作为公司主管的特权。
Skiing used to be the prerogativeoftherich, but now afarwiderrangeofpeopledo it.滑雪过去是富人的特权，但现在更多的人都可以玩了。
theRoyalPrerogative(= thespecialrightsof therulingkingorqueen)君主特权
Synonym
privilege
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Allowing and permitting
  • admission
  • admit ofsomething
  • allow ofsomething
  • allowable
  • approval
  • authorization
  • authorize
  • clearance
  • entrance
  • given the chance/choiceidiom
  • green-light
  • hall pass
  • imprimatur
  • left
  • liberty
  • relicensure
  • say-so
  • security clearance
  • seeyourway (clear) todoing somethingidiom
  • sufferance
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(Definition ofprerogativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prerogative| American Dictionary

prerogative
noun[C]
us
/prɪˈrɑɡ·ə·t̬ɪv/
aspecialadvantagethatallowssomepeoplethefreedomto do or have something that is notpossibleorallowedfor everyone:
It’s the president’s prerogative tonominatejudgeswhosharehispoliticalphilosophy.
(Definition ofprerogativefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprerogative

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It was the statistics office that assumed theprerogativeof selection.
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These were the areas, he argued, in which the struggle between the royalprerogativeand ' constitutional forces ' - as he defined ' politics ' - took place.
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The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states.
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The act of conceding such benefits took on the institutional form of privilege, by virtue of which the beneficiary enjoyed a series of special prerogatives.
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As long as markets could be defined for all activity, failure remained the soleprerogativeof nonconvexity.
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Central bankers now viewed political pressure as unwarranted interference into the central bank's legal and moralprerogativeto conduct independent monetary policy.
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The speech ideally mixes gloom and worry with hope and resolution by asserting the executive's legislative prerogatives.
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The emergence of this system had rendered most of the monarch's formal prerogatives obsolete.
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Compliance with the formal rules is unlikely and irrational when judges are punished for attempting to limit the prerogatives of the president.
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The repeated resort to the so-called decrees of ' urgency and need ' represent a clear invasion of legislative prerogatives by the executive.
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The general pardons which invariably accompanied royal successions underscored mercy as aprerogativeof power.
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In fact, it may be theprerogativeof a ' think piece ' to provide precisely that.
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For, if true, it indicates that the power to make critical allocative decisions was not, as most scholars assume, aprerogativeof the state.
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Their disagreements are reflected in the extent to which they have resorted to their nationalprerogativeto request additional national regulatory requirements.
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The defence of royalprerogativein matters ecclesiastical had a long high church lineage.
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